MIMF

From the standpoint of someone who did the repair game for to long. I would go to him with no expectations and make no demands, tell him what you are considering, ask him what he thinks and ask him what you did not ask before, why ebony vs matching the wood of the neck? See what he has to say and le...

It depends... We are going to do some practical simplifications ahead but the important stuff is right, or should be, I am abit rusty. Either way, it is practical and will get you were you need to go, corrections welcome. A humbucker works by canceling out anything that is equal but opposite between...

I would have expected more than 2 degrees, I might be a degree or so negative. Look. pretty much flat, but I never have bothered to measure. The reasonable side of me agrees with you on the neck and even leans me toward just cutting off the neck extension and dovetailing on a new one, but I will at ...

The neck has a lot of the original wood missing. Obviously the first repair was poorly done but I would not try to redo it. But I would do a cosmetic cover up to hide the ugliness. I am not to concerned with cosmetics, I am more worried about the neck angle. As long as someone else did it I can tol...

Things got busy for abit there. It is almost certainly a real melody maker and I the think the body extension is largely intact, and after a.little scraping it Is even more of a conundrum. So I noticed.the dowel that went through the body/neck looked odd, the lacquer was crack all around it but pere...

Evening folks, used to hang out in these parts back around the turn of the century, place has changed abit since those days. Anyway I got this old 65' Melody Maker that had its neck broken off the body, looks like some of the body came with it as well. Who ever repaired it just sort stuck it on ran ...